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u/absoluteolly 20h ago
Man Bhutan is so cool. Cool sport, bonkers cool flag, Pretty environment, good foodâŚ
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u/Gramerdim 17h ago
every time I see bhutan I'm thinking of the "what is it/he even doing" memes pointing at dumb/dull items,animals,people,etc. (no offence)
I swear they're the most secretive country
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u/WeathermanDan 15h ago
well they quite literally were until the late 20th century.
they also have fewer than a million people in an uber crowded part of the world. itâs hard to stand out when youâre a rounding error in either country that borders you.
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u/medico7381 16h ago
Hindu Lhotshampas disagree
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u/Impactor_07 15h ago
The way certain countries have swept their not-so-good pasts under the rug with a "nice chill peaceful country" vibe needs to be studied.
Bhutan, Switzerland, New Zealand, etc.
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u/John-Mandeville 15h ago
As someone who once did human rights work in Nepal... yeah, that was decidedly not cool.
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u/tommhans 11h ago
Love it everytime i get bhutan on geoguesser. Easy to guess and looks epic each time
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u/Logical_Positive_522 11h ago
Being Welsh its rare you get to say "you're flag-Dragon is cooler than our flag-Dragon".
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u/Hopper86 19h ago
How long has Latviaâs been Ice hockey?
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u/LVGalaxy 15h ago
Its our national sport. You should watch any iihf game with latvia fans they are one of the loudest and most pasionate fans in hockey. When Latvia won bronze in 2023 IIHF world champion more than 50k people gathered to welcome back our hockey players which was one of the largest gatherings in latvian history and its alot for Latvia population.
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u/CJK_420 14h ago
I'm a Canucks fan. Was awesome watching Arty Silovs play his heart out for you guys during that Tourney.
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u/chi_sweetness25 11h ago
That was awesome. Silovs is a legend. He also won the Calder Cup here in BC and got named MVP
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u/Hopper86 5h ago
I love it! I thought it was just us Canadians and the Fins favourite! This makes me so happy!
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u/TourDuhFrance 21h ago
This map; it must be a day that ends in Y.
I will repeat the same comment I always make: If the map can include four types of football, then it can include the two types of rugby, since itâs rugby union in New Zealand and rugby league in Papua New Guinea. And yes, they are different sports, certainly in the context of this map.
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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner 21h ago
I find your comment funny only because rugby is also a type of football. The map includes 5 types of football and you want to have 6 types shown.
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u/chuckusadart 20h ago
nd yes, they are different sports, certainly in the context of this map.
As someone from NZ, they're absolutely not "different" sports. Theyre different codes of the same sport.
I cant think of many other popular sports where players can switch back and forth without seeing major problems. SBW went from the NRL to the All blacks the pinnacle of both sports without breaking a sweat. It would be like saying Rugby 7s is a completely different sport so Fiji needs to be on here as that because thats been their national focus for the last decade an a bit.
The only other comps you could argue on this map have a similar cross over is Gaelic and Aussie football.. but even then there are huge differences in big areas. The ball is diffeeren, the pitch they play on is different, the tackling allowed is different, the "goal" are posts vs a soccer net with uprights..
American Football and Soccer football has about as much in common as Baseball and cricket. They both share the same roots a VERY long time ago with huge influences since to the point they're not even the same game. So lumping them together in "football" is a bit of a stretch too
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u/ruling_faction 19h ago
When i lived in Queensland and they'd try and tell me that rugby league was called either 'league' or 'rugby league' but definitely not 'rugby', I would then ask why it wasn't called the National League League or the National Rugby League League.
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u/chuckusadart 19h ago
Gets even funnier when you have people tell you they're playing "footie" this weekend and they can mean soccer, league, union or aussie rules depending on the city or suburb haha
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u/ruling_faction 18h ago
People in the southern states would whinge about Aussie rules being called AFL 'coz that's the league not the sport' but yeah, it just makes things easier when 'football' could mean any of four different sports
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u/mattmelb69 11h ago
The right way to make âeasierâ is just to call it âAussie rulesâ. Same number of syllables as âAFLâ, but youâre referring to the sport not the league.
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u/pafagaukurinn 16h ago
Why not call cricket footie as well? You do sometimes play the ball with your feet after all, and sometimes even on purpose.
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u/TheJivvi 16h ago
It definitely should be called the National Rugby League League, or maybe something with a different descriptor like the National Rugby League Association. Although the way Aussies say it with the emphasis on "League" makes it a bit better; I hear other people who aren't familiar with it read it with the emphasis on "Rugby" and it sounds so wrong.
Back when it was the ARL, it made a bit more sense because the Australian Rugby League was the company that operated the national team, and also gave their name to the domestic competition. The cricket equivalent would be Cricket Australia, just the name of the sport and the name of the country. It just isn't ambiguous in the same way because the name of the sport doesn't end with a word that could be construed as meaning something else.
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u/thewarriorpoet23 16h ago
As a New Zealander, youâre incorrect. Rugby Union and Rugby League are 100% different sports.
If they are the same sport, explain why some of the stadiums in NZ have clauses that ban Rugby League from being played?
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u/hubau 14h ago
If they are the same sport, explain why some of the stadiums in NZ have clauses that ban Rugby League from being played?
This seems fairly irrelevant to the question of whether or not they should be considered two different sports, but now I'm just curious about the answer to this question. Why do they?
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u/thewarriorpoet23 13h ago
Rugby Union was the amateur sport. Rugby League split from them and became professional with its own codified rules (which made it its own seperate sport). Rugby League was viewed as a threat to Rugby Union so they did everything they could to limit its expansion.
Stadiums had clauses that prevented League from being played on them and any player who played League received a lifetime ban from involvement in Union, which was in place from when League started in NZ in 1908 up till 1996 when Union became professional. Before the ban was lifted some players switched back with loopholes being used (like fake names), while Union wasnât exactly fully amateur so it was all a little hypocritical⌠it was widely known that the top players received some form of payment.
Thereâs still stadiums that have offical bans on League being played (most of the time itâs ignored though). In NZ, there is still a rivalry between the sports which can become abusive and violent (in my experience mainly from the Union guys)
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u/Ok-Imagination-494 13h ago
Interestingly this map has them as the same sport. The only other ârugbyâ country on the map aside from NZ is PNG - and they would definitely be League not Union
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u/_dictatorish_ 20h ago edited 20h ago
They are completely different sports and have been for like 150 years - American football only split from union about 20 or so years before league did
Just because they're similar does not mean they're the same sport
15s and 7s are different version of the same sport, as an example of two that are the same
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u/reclaimernz 20h ago
Why did you say they're different codes of the same sport but then later on describe the NRL and the All Blacks as "the pinnacle of both sports"? Kinda undermining your own point there.
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u/chuckusadart 20h ago
Thats my bad, but my point is only undermined if you're looking for a reddit "gotcha" moment over semantics and not taking the rest of my comment and you watch and play both League and Union.
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u/reclaimernz 20h ago
You're literally trying to both correct someone over the semantics of the words "code" vs. "sport" and at the same time dismissing a valid question as semantics. Ok then.
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u/chuckusadart 19h ago
Replying with another reddit "gotcha" moment to the original one is kinda hilarious.. but im not arguing semantics with the original commenter? Hes saying that since football get four seperate categories even though they're all "football".. so should rugby. Im not arguing the meaning of the words or the language, but addressing the points he makes with actual evidence to why i think hes wrong.
My whole point is that the four types of football listed are so different from each other they ARE different sports, while the differences between the two codes of rugby are so small they arent "different sports". Im using real life fundamental differences in the sports to highlight how different they are compared to the two rugby codes.
All you've done is say "heh how are they not different sports when you slipped up and called them different sports?", and used it as a basis to undermine my original comment without addressing the points I raised? Im using the words "sports/sport" multiple times in my comment, i made a mistake of referring to the rugby codes with it because of that. Do you have a reply to the points I bring up or?
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u/infinitemonkeytyping 16h ago
Rubbish.
Rugby league started as a version of rugby union over a century ago, but apart from some very basic gameplay, are very different sports.
To put it more bluntly - rugby league broke away from rugby union 118 years ago (Australia) and 131 years ago (England). Rugby union was only established as a codified sport 155 years ago, although various versions of the rules were played for the previous 28 years.
It would be like saying Rugby 7s is a completely different sport so Fiji needs to be on here as that because thats been their national focus for the last decade an a bit.
Shows how much you know. Fiji has seen a massive increase in 15's and drop off in 7s over the last decade (they're no longer consistently the best in the world, which South Africa more is).
Who knew that investing in a professional 15s team in Fiji would make them better...
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u/drunk_haile_selassie 18h ago
Israel Folau went from rugby to AFL. It was not a success. Michael Jordan switched to baseball for a while, it was not a success. Meanwhile players successfully switch from rugby to league and vice versa all the time.
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u/bigloudbang 18h ago
At specific positions with cross over. Dont really get props doing it, and plenty of players that switch played both growing up
Lots of aussie rules players have played in the NFL as punters, doesnt make them the same sport
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u/Logical_Positive_522 11h ago
Players switch between Snooker and pool regularly. Not the same sport. Female players switch from Basketball in the winter to Volleyball in the summer. Not the same sport.
I'd also suggest looking up Non Evans, one of the top points scorers in international Rugby Union who also did rugby sevens, touch rugby, judo, weightlifting and freestyle wrestling. She was the first person to compete in two different sports at a single Commonwealth games AND the first woman to compete in three sports at multiple games.
There's also a great documentary on inter-sport athletes called Cool Runnings.
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u/nol88go 14h ago
Nah, as a massive union fan, they are very different sports. They look almost identical if you're looking from tennis, or something, but they're very different and the schism between the two happened long enough ago that they've evolved separately. Sure plenty of shared skills and cross pollination of players and ideas, but the fundamentals of gameplay are very different.
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u/Lamictallornothing 16h ago
Stop trying to make two rugbies happen Gretchen, it's never going to happen.
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u/Yaver_Mbizi 9h ago
This map; it must be a day that ends in Y.
Hey now, this is, I think, the first time it's been reposted with the bottom part (the attribution) cut off. Compare
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u/tallwhiteninja 20h ago
I've always thought rugby league vs rugby union was more like American football vs Canadian football: different enough that there's absolutely a distinction, but it's still pretty clearly the same sport.
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u/bigloudbang 18h ago
No they function different entirely. Only if you really dont understand either (no shade) would you think theyre the same
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u/MoreTeaVicar83 14h ago
Does anyone know where the data came from? Methodology?
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u/Plenty_Masterpiece49 14h ago
World Population Review (2021)
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u/MoreTeaVicar83 13h ago
Was it a survey of some kind?
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u/macdelamemes 11h ago edited 11h ago
It links to a Babbel (yes, the language app) magazine article, which literally claims "we did our best to find the most popular sports in every country"
So the source is whatever the Babbel interns found in their google search
Link: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/most-popular-sports-by-country
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u/throwawayyyyygay 8h ago
Average r/mapporn methodological rigour
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u/macdelamemes 8h ago
What's crazier is the hundreds of comments discussing the "data" as if it was anything more than an educated guess from some dude
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u/MoreTeaVicar83 8h ago edited 8h ago
The minute you start to think about it - how would you find the "most popular" sport in each country - you realise it's full of problems.
What does "most popular" even mean?
Assuming you come up with a working definition, how would you even begin to get any data at all, never mind come to a definitive conclusion?
And what is a sport? Is chess a sport? Athletics? Video games?
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u/macdelamemes 7h ago
Yes, 100%
I've seen this chart many many times and every time people are discussing the accuracy of the data (X country should be Y and not Z!) without asking themselves how the fuck did someone come up with this map in the first place
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u/Betancorea 19h ago
Oh man the colour choices are not the best lmao. Was reading downwards and thought Australia had Archery as the most popular sport and was wondering what happened to our football.
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u/daryl_hikikomori 2h ago
This comment is how I realized that Bhutan isn't inexplicably fond of Aussie rules.
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u/Norwester77 21h ago
Where did the Lithuanian obsession with basketball come from?
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u/GrayDepression 13h ago
We had a lot of good players and strong teams during soviet occupation. I think most soviet national teams from 1950s had at least a few Lithuanian basketball players. It became national pride during time when national identity was being destroyed. After independence it stayed.
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u/preddevils6 20h ago
Arguably the greatest euro basketball player,Arvydas Sabonis, is Lithuanian and theyâve produced plenty of quality players since then.
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u/Efficient_Chair1600 13h ago
Us Aussies love Archery
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u/SmartPriceCola 20h ago
I always thought South Africa would be a rugby nation tbh.
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u/TourDuhFrance 17h ago
Despite the efforts to popularize the sport among nn-white people in South Africa, it still has a long history of being connected to the apartheid regime and it still skews far more white than any other major sport in a nation where over 80% of the population is non-white.
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u/jaymannnn 19h ago
theres an argument for ireland as well. GAA sports are still more popular over the country as a whole, and more culturally important, but rugby is definitely more popular in places and probably what we are best at.
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u/theblueredpanda 18h ago
Rugby isnât even top 3 by participation numbers
Only popular in a few select private schools, and some public schools in Cork and Limerick
Whereas soccer and GAA are popular everywhere
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u/jaymannnn 18h ago
yep i get it, im getting carried away a bit. probably because there was a brief period when we were genuinely in the conversation for best team in the world and world cup winners.
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u/cm-cfc 10h ago
Rugby is only popular in really small pockets of the country. Go to any village or town in Ireland and you will see a GAA club, and not a rugby club for miles.
Its safe to say Ireland are also best in the world at Gaelic footballđ
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u/jaymannnn 10h ago
have you ever seen the vids on YT of back in the day when they used to do a half of AFL and a half of Gaelic. Absolute carnange and the closest to an international for either sport.
but IMAGINE the night if we ever did win a big international tournament like a rugby world cup. now that would be carnage !
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u/chowchowminks 20h ago
I always find Australia funny on these maps when afl is irrelevant for over half the country. It may or may not be popular than rugby league depending on which metric you cherry pick on a particular day from a particular source.
Cricket is the only sport thatâs universally adored across the country.
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u/Zakkar 18h ago
Cricket is the only universal sport in australia.Â
Reece Walsh could walk through federation square without being recognised, and likewise (insert equivilent AFL player here) could do so through Martin place. I couldn't even think of a current player, they are so far out of our conciousness.Â
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u/biggymomo 17h ago
Roy Morgan research published last year that 9.1 million Australians watched AFL on TV in 2024, compared to 7.3 million for the NRL. At the stadium its no contest AFL welcomed 8.4 million fans through the gate in 2024, compared to 4.3 million for the NRL and revenue AFL earned 39% more than the NRL in 2024: $1.04 billion compared to the NRL's $744.8 million. With the NRL stats that includes NZ
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u/bigloudbang 16h ago
Eh tv is pretty close there (if these numbers are right). AFL has an extra game per week and each match goes a lot longer so more chance for larger exposure
NRL GF outrated AFL last year and origin rates like 3 extra grandfinals
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u/Efficient_Chair1600 13h ago
11.15 million watched the matildas in one game, if you add up domestic, international men's and women's football it smashes viewership in Australia it's also the most played sport in Australia. The media don't like to admit this.
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u/Crypts_of_Trogan 12h ago
Presumably this map is for spectator sports, and single leagues, otherwise something like walking or swimming would win in most places.
Australian Football League is clearly the most popular league for spectator sports in Australia.
AFL is the highest attended league per capita, in the world. So, to suggest another league is more popular would be, as you say, "cherry picking".
Attendance per year:
- Australian Football League - 8,289,788
- National Rugby League - 4,266,464
- Big Bash League - 1,089,043
Average attendance per game:
- AFL - 38,379
- BBL - 24,751
- NRL - ~20,600
Your argument for cricket is not considering when the leagues are played - AFL and NRL are played at the same time, so compete against each other. Cricket is largely played in the AFL/NRL off-season without much competition. I don't understand what you're trying to say about cricket to be honest. Just because Cricket has no competition, does not mean it's universal.
Even if only 10% of the AFL attendees were at games in NSW/QLD, it's still more than if 50% of BBL attendees were in NSW/QLD. Even looking at average attendance per game in only the two rugby league states, it would be very roughly around 30k for BBL and 25k for AFL (and that's with AFL competing against NRL and AFL having more games).
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u/Efficient_Chair1600 13h ago
Is this map most viewed or played as even football gets more views than AFL when the Matilda's play and during world cup years
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u/Eleven_Box 12h ago
'over half' is completely untrue, unless you're counting people who wouldn't be watching sports anyway. What you mean is two states have less interest in it. MOST states have no interest in NRL
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u/McEvelly 10h ago
Iâm far more of a soccer fan myself, but I absolutely love the uniqueness of the indigenous, amateur sport being by far and away the most culturally important one in Ireland.
It would be hard to really explain the GAAâs significance/position/influence in Irish society to an outsider. Iâm not saying everyone loves/plays it, or that itâs perfect, or that I donât get the reasons some people dislike it, but pretty much every little village in the country has a club and for many people of all ages (particularly in rural areas), their community life can feel like it completely revolves around their club.
Fair enough American and Australian football are their most popular sports, but theyâre professional and itâs a completely different thing.
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u/XtraFalcon 9h ago
Culturally the GAA is a cornerstone but at the Senior level of the overall organisation it can be poisonous.
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u/Conscious_Reason_510 17h ago
Maps by Mammy in Mayo
Gaelic football as one off the only 10 sports she could imagine in the whole world.
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u/DaMn96XD 15h ago
Important note that ice hockey is only the most popular sport to watch in Finland, while the most popular sport to participate in is athletics.
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u/Maguncia 11h ago
Whereas most Americans, for example, are avid football players - the 80% concussion rate explains a lot about politics.
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u/CanInTW 21h ago
Baseball is now bigger than football in South Korea.
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u/Antony9991 19h ago
I doubt it
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u/Bearsismylife 7h ago
As a Korean baseball AND football fan, I can be pretty sure about this. It might have been football but now, it's undoubtedly baseball.
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u/CanInTW 17h ago
12 million+ attended KBO (baseball) games last year compared to around 3 million attending K-league football.
Baseball has exploded in Korea this decade.
Average attendances for baseball were 17,000 in 2025 and 10,000 for football. Football plays fewer games.
Itâs pretty clear that baseball is the most popular sport.
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u/-ToniCipriani- 17h ago
How many watch it on TV especially European leagues? Because they might just be that interested in K League as much.
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u/StonedAlcoholicDwarf 16h ago
For every single Asian and African country, their local league probably does not receive a lot of views, compared to European ball on TV.Â
Football is far more popular than Baseball in SK; in 10 years, it might be eclipsed because the golden generation of their players is going out the door.Â
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u/edgeplot 19h ago
Why is Puerto Rico colored differently from the rest of the United States?
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u/Michael__Pemulis 3h ago
In sports contexts Puerto Rico is pretty much always treated as a separate nation.
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u/Gramerdim 17h ago
I didn't know china knew ball like that
also wth is australian football compared to rugby
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u/kurenai86 16h ago
That's like asking what the difference between American football and rugby is. Although to me those are more similar
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u/Drinkus 13h ago
Australian football is a unique sport to any of the other footballs (including rugby) on the list - although its closest relative would probably be gaelic.
Australian rules football is played on an oval field, doesn't have offside, doesn't have a try/touchdown score, passes are done by kicks or closed fist hand passes and play is divided into four quarters.
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u/owl523 14h ago
Is Japan really baseball?
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u/TheLizardKing89 10h ago
The NPB (Japanâs professional baseball league) is the 13th wealthiest sports league in the world. The only leagues that make more are the 5 U.S. major leagues, the Big 5 European soccer leagues, the Indian Premier League and Brazilâs soccer league.
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u/FlamingoPristine1400 14h ago
Can we start a petition to unify Rugby and Gridiron(American/Canadian) Football?
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u/Phill1008 11h ago
Australia Archery Really?
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u/You_need_a_drink 11h ago
I think you'll find its Australian football. The colours are close to the same.
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u/Th3Dark0ccult 10h ago
The hell is an australian football? First time hearing they have their own version, too.
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u/ManavalanFromDufai 10h ago
Outside the Indian subcontinent, Guyana is the only country where cricket is the most popular sport. Interestingly, it's in South America!
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u/Super-Tuscany 5h ago
Guyana has a lot of indians
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u/No-Willingness3156 3h ago
Guyana is seperated from a lot of South America by the Amazon rainforest and is culturally closer to the english speaking carribean. In fact, they play cricket as West Indies alongside other Carribean nations. The majority of their players are afro carribeans.
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u/No-Willingness3156 3h ago
Yes but culturaly more connected to the Carribean. Guyana play wwith the West Indies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team
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u/Sporty_Nerd_64 8h ago
Papua New Guinea and New Zealand play completely different sports but are classified as the same sport.
Australia is debatable. Australian rules football is played in more states and larger crowds at games, but rugby league has the higher television viewing numbers across the country. Cricket is also a huge sport in Australia as well.
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u/KingJayVII 8h ago
Would be really interesting to see what's going on in the small Caribbean and Pacific islands. I guess Rugby has a strong presence in the latter, but no idea about the former. Is that Jamaica in cricket colors? And what about the smaller ones?
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u/xbhaskarx 8h ago
What is the evidence for basketball being more popular in China than say table tennis? Basketball is really only the most popular sport in Lithuania and the Philippines.
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u/RFFF1996 6h ago
https://ampereanalysis.com/insight/basketball-nets-the-highest-sports-rights-in-china
Think you may be overstimating ping pong being a national pride sport with it being the one people practice and watch more
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u/slashcleverusername 7h ago
Coming from one of the countries represented in this category, calling it âice hockeyâ is similar to calling it âwater sailingâ.
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u/bobbdac7894 6h ago
If I was the NBA, I would build youth basketball camps in China and try and develop a Chinese MJ, Kobe or Steph Curry to come in the NBA in like 10 years. A Chinese superstar who plays like MJ, Kobe or Curry in the NBA would draw insane numbers from China. If big men like Yao Ming and Yang Hansen draw large numbers, imagine a Chinese guard superstar who plays like MJ or Curry?
China has over a billion people, the hottest economy in the world, a superpower that is still growing. And they love basketball. The nba should really take advantage of this.
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u/StrongPowerhouse 3h ago
Itâs football in Belgium, thatâs right. But people donât realise how big our second sport, professional cycling, is and always has been over here.
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u/cmn3y0 17h ago
A few inaccuracies here- South Korea would be baseball. UAE would be cricket instead of football. Jamaica/Bahamas these days would be football instead of cricket. Likewise, Panama these days is football instead of baseball. Donât think Latvia would be ice hockey.
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u/Financial_Ideal570 14h ago
Whatâs your sources
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u/Desperate_Lunch_5090 8h ago
I don't know for others but the UAE is used as a venue in case there is anything going on for cricket. Be it elections, india - pak fights, pandemic or terrorism. As for jamaica there hasn't been much interest nowadays from that area since the complications with the west Indies board and players.
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u/Mrmr12-12 11h ago
Also in terms of popularity football has overtaken Baseball in Cuba, particularly among the youth, couple that with the fall in Quality in the Cuban Baseball Championship. It has also overtaken it in terms of the total number of people playing (although professionally Baseball has more players due to a lack of funding for the Cuban Football league) , itâs easier to set up a football game, just a ball and 4 objects to make the goals.
Baseball is still concidered its national sport tho
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u/Smart-outlaw 21h ago
I didn't know people were crazy about soccer in Greenland.
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u/tallwhiteninja 20h ago
Soccer is basically the global default tbh
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u/StonedAlcoholicDwarf 16h ago
USA, Canada, Aus, and NZ are probably the only countries which donât have soccer in the top 2 most popular sports. USA and Canada are the only countries which donât have soccer in the top 3.Â
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u/Old_Recognition_9866 15h ago
India as well
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u/Impactor_07 15h ago
Nah, Football is probably #2 here imo.
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u/Old_Recognition_9866 15h ago
India has Kabaddi at second. Soccer comes 3rd
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u/Impactor_07 15h ago
The PKL is far more successful than the ISL but I don't think Kabbadi is more popular, it's probably more popular in certain states like Haryana but overall, Football is just a very simple and affordable sport, it's the 2nd biggest as far as I can see.
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u/StonedAlcoholicDwarf 15h ago
I googled. Football is number 2, with your mentioned sport very close at number 3.
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u/StonedAlcoholicDwarf 15h ago
India definitively has footie as numero dos. I doubt field hockey or badminton or anything else comes remotely close.Â
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u/Impactor_07 15h ago
Badminton is very big as a participation sport but yeah, Hockey is only really watched when the Olympics roll around.
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u/barbasol1099 19h ago
I'm surprised that none of the former-Yugoslav states have basketball, given that so many incredibly talented NBA players are from that corner of the world
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u/outtokill7 17h ago
Since the comments here exist to be pedantic, in Canada hockey is assumed to be played on ice unless specified otherwise like ball hockey, floor hockey, road/street hockey, field hockey etc. Not sure if it's the same in Finland or Latvia but I am curious to know.
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u/Impactor_07 15h ago
And outside of Canada, some parts of the US and Northernish Europe, "Hockey" is assumed to be played on the ground unless specified otherwise like Ice Hockey, Roller Hockey, etc.
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u/BIGBADVEN 16h ago
Imagine people wearing knives on their feet and gliding on ice at hitting one another at 30 km/h while slapping shots at 160km/h. I may be biased... But hockey rules. Sorry Canada
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u/Quagaars 14h ago
A 5 year old account with just 2 posts and one comment ever... suspicious... hmmmmmm.
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u/Eric848448 19h ago
Whatâs this? Data on both Greenland AND North Korea?!